Ubuntu Won't boot after installing ATI Proprietary Drivers.

**russianmoney** · March 22nd, 2018

Hello. First of all, i'm using an old ATI GPU (Radeon HD 5450). I Tried installing the drivers on 16.04, but they aren't supported, causing me to not be able to find fglrx on the default Repos. I Downgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, and after following the Tutorial Here And Restaring My pc freezes on the boot screen. i can't access the Terminal with ALT+CTRL+F1 too. I Reinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 about 6 Times today already, trying to download fglrx from their website and running it and i still got the same problem.
Linux is the only operating system i can use ATM. And it's so sad that i can't play my games properly on it.
Seriously though, Any help will be really, really, appreciated.
Thanks

**deadflowr** · March 22nd, 2018

Which 14.04 version?
The latest version cannot run the drivers since it uses the same hardware and kernel stack that 16.04 uses.
To install the drivers on 14.04 you need this version
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.1/
(even though the page says 14.04.2 the version you would be getting is 14.04.1 which uses the original hardware stack for 14.04.
that hardware stack is what will work.)

**russianmoney** · March 23rd, 2018

I'm using the latest version of 14.04.
Is it possible to downgrade from it?

**Bashing-om** · March 23rd, 2018

russianmoney; Yepper ^^ .

*downgrade* your trusty to the original trusty 3.13 kernel and xorg :

Code:

sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-generic xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all libwayland-egl1-mesa

reboot into grub and choose to boot the 3.13 kernel .

Now if all is good remove the unwanted HWE stack:

Code:

sudo apt purge linux-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-core-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial

verify once more that grub is happy

Code: